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A cyclist in a wide-brimmed hat rides past a row of historic buildings and groups of people on a tree-lined street in Wisbech.

Dukes Head, Church Terrace, Wisbech c1905 (Wisbech Museum(

Duke’s Head, Church Terrace, Wisbech

History of Duke's Head

In the photo Medcalf’s blacksmiths on right.

A very old inn; it used to have a sign which stretched across the road. originally a coaching inn.

1792-1796 Thomas Langman

1846-1852 Amelia Clarke

(source: The Inns and Taverns of Wisbech – a survey from the earliest times to 1950 by Arthur Artis Oldham, 1993)

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